Classroom activities

Aimed at 11–18 year-olds (KS 3, 4 and 5), these activity sheet downloads include modelling and locating
meteorite impacts, or marsquakes, which will help us understand more about the
internal structure of the ‘red planet’.

The Mars InSight lander will deploy two seismometers that will send live data back to Earth.
It offers our first chance to look at extraterrestrial quake data since the Apollo moon
missions of the 1960s and 1970s.
Data from InSight’s seismometers will be transmitted back to Earth and will be freely
accessible online.

The mission is expected to last at least a year and should send back a
continuous stream of data for scientists, and students, to analyse.

Curriculum links

The MarsQuake project covers a broad range of topics primarily within the physics
curriculum, including:

energy

distance/speed/time
calculations

solar system

waves

But the investigations (and its variations) can be used to underpin the
teaching within a number of different subjects, such as maths, geology and geography.